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diana soto
May 24, 2019 at 1:21 pm
Satisfying
Eugene
May 24, 2019 at 1:22 pm
Сасная тёлка то
Ellie Rose
May 24, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Lots if gibi in the video and I’m here for it
hex
May 24, 2019 at 1:36 pm
I love whispering or tapping ASMR but eating “ASMR” is the worst.
Pete OConnor
May 24, 2019 at 1:46 pm
Jesus the eating was horrific.
Avneesh Singh Tomar
May 24, 2019 at 1:52 pm
The sound of nature…. Rain, birds chirping, waterfall, leaves cracking…. ?
Reh Ne
May 24, 2019 at 1:59 pm
ASMR does nothing to me and I think people actually listening to that are just weird.
Cherriana
May 24, 2019 at 2:42 pm
My BFF hates ASMR but I love ASMR, wired…
Comrade Jz 89
May 24, 2019 at 2:50 pm
interview pewdiepie
poutipou
May 24, 2019 at 2:52 pm
is it normal that asmr does absolutely nothing to me?
Brandon C Maximum
May 24, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Wow, there is a lot of Gibi. Hey, I’m not complaining.
jo shimyeon
May 24, 2019 at 3:12 pm
Let Cole Sprouse know about this
Cyn
May 24, 2019 at 3:20 pm
I liked it when I got my mri scan.
stef
May 24, 2019 at 3:29 pm
take a shot every time he says comfort or comforting
Robert Paulson
May 24, 2019 at 3:33 pm
For me Asmr is an instant to punch everyone I see in the face. Especially eating noises and wispering.
Aaron Shorts
May 24, 2019 at 3:36 pm
Sometimes while I’m eating, if I think about it too much I can gross myself out ?
Merkur
May 24, 2019 at 3:36 pm
There’s A LOT of Gibi in this video, nice.
Moss M
May 24, 2019 at 3:41 pm
I’d think it would relate to hearing an animal rustling in a forest, that may be a predetor or prey.
Monica Lesaca
May 24, 2019 at 4:07 pm
I thoughtthe girl at the thumbnail was the neuroscientist?♀️
A WHS
May 24, 2019 at 4:20 pm
You can control your ASMR with some practice. Problem is, it’s VERY powerful, your entire body can feel like it’s vibrating intensely, it’s tied to emotion.
Some scientists believe it’s a genetic mutation that only occurs in less than 2-4% of the population.
nicholas dean
May 24, 2019 at 4:26 pm
Why do people watch it? People complain around me when they can hear you eating 0:30
Connor Stickels
May 24, 2019 at 4:27 pm
Gibi getting featured again, an ASMR queen
ProBeastMode
May 24, 2019 at 4:31 pm
Pretty trash questions asked in this interview
Robert Dee
May 24, 2019 at 4:32 pm
What’s it called if it has the opposite effect on you?
MrCalbber
May 24, 2019 at 4:50 pm
Can you stop whispering? It’s annoying
ASMR addict
May 25, 2019 at 1:29 pm
Could people stop being so obnoxious about not liking eating sounds? Just let us people that actually like it scroll through the comments without seeing a negative comment every 5 comments.
DavidGP
May 25, 2019 at 1:31 pm
Her voice is, like _definitely_?, not suitable for ASMR
DavidGP
May 25, 2019 at 1:33 pm
Did he say “*no so*, thank you very much” in the end?
Lana Pajnić
May 25, 2019 at 1:38 pm
yall could of just said we dont know without making a 10 min video abt it XD
Garnet Johnson
May 25, 2019 at 1:42 pm
This girl just doesn’t get it.
Pete ASMR
May 25, 2019 at 1:47 pm
The MRI at my old hospital was relaxing. Take me to a new MRI put on those headphones they had and scan my brain. I full on fell asleep in that thing. There are people you can test just got to find people who respond well to mris. Older crapper ones yes are loud but newer machines I’ve had no issues with.
Allan Tj
May 25, 2019 at 1:57 pm
Never get tingles but I like listening to asmr to calm my nerves However, eating asmr is the worst asmr its like the sound of demon eating human body.
ASMR Shoron
May 25, 2019 at 2:01 pm
*You can find some*
*asmr here*
Anton Helsgaun
May 25, 2019 at 2:12 pm
This made me extremely uncomfortable
Amorr Winterstorm
May 25, 2019 at 2:16 pm
Gibi ASMR
Kalle Anka
May 25, 2019 at 2:20 pm
This interviewer was weirdly annoying
Autumnpixx ASMR
May 25, 2019 at 2:40 pm
There’s definitely a hereditary component, because at only 18 mos old, my daughter prompted me to scratch and tap her textured baby books close to her ear, and her eyes would droop in relaxation right away. As well, it would be good to research not just visually-triggered people. There are those of us out there who are sounds people, and we simply need some crinkling, tapping, scratching, etc. noises in our ears, and boom, good night moon. I use it whenever I need to fall (back) to sleep. This huge piece wasn’t really touched on by the psychologist.
きんちゃく
May 25, 2019 at 2:48 pm
何言ってるかわかりたい
そして日本人いない悲しさ…
Nouha Bc
May 25, 2019 at 2:48 pm
Her voice makes me so mad .
Simone
May 25, 2019 at 3:22 pm
TO SUM UP: They have no idea.
That Channel
May 25, 2019 at 3:25 pm
People who enjoy watching people eating McDonalds as fast as they can are odd. It always shows when I look up ASMR and I hate it.
Simone
May 25, 2019 at 3:28 pm
This guy reminds me the How I Met Your Mother episode where Lilly would not take a group picture with Ted’s chick and started listing random technicality to get away with it.
He’s pretty much doing the same thing.
lanigirognithemos
May 25, 2019 at 3:48 pm
I really like ASMR but mostly just the soft talking and whispering and some visual triggers like calligraphy is very relaxing to me.
But I hate mouth sounds and people eating and tapping and stuff like that.
Hazel Fig
May 25, 2019 at 4:07 pm
*Nick Davis sounds like hes trying not to cry*
Corey Munroe
May 25, 2019 at 4:08 pm
Neuroscientist: MRIs are an extremely noisy environment.
Me: I fell asleep during my MRI.
Joey
May 25, 2019 at 4:11 pm
I hate how GibiAsmr is showed, she is the biggest fraud in the ASMR community!
Sn C
May 25, 2019 at 4:15 pm
Lol Gibi
May May
May 25, 2019 at 4:40 pm
I remember when I was younger in school if a teacher would come and help me with a maths problem or something I’d get asmr, same as when someone played with your hair, but just had no idea it was a thing until I saw asmr videos on YouTube. He’s right its always been around/most people experience it you just wouldn’t have a name for it
HeatherGotRedPilled
May 25, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Spoiler alert: this scientist has no idea why people experience ASMR.
M3h3ndr3
May 25, 2019 at 4:57 pm
The eatingsound kind is really gross o0
Claire Anyadike
May 26, 2019 at 6:32 am
SAS asmr should have been featured for the food category
KingKoopa01
May 26, 2019 at 6:36 am
I was waiting on her to say rain and thunder….
KingKoopa01
May 26, 2019 at 6:43 am
There was a lot of choice slime in this video I wonder was all of it homemade
Margub Musawi
May 26, 2019 at 6:46 am
*girl power* ?
Ren SC
May 26, 2019 at 7:04 am
bruh is not that deep
Dan Inglis
May 26, 2019 at 7:18 am
Say “like” one more time. Jeeez
Saitoshiba
May 26, 2019 at 7:42 am
I actually felt asmr triggered by how the scientist spoke. This monotone way of speaking made me very sleepy.
Noah Thallon
May 26, 2019 at 8:04 am
ASMR is different for everyone. i get it seems weird, but this stuff actually HELPS people, myself included, and it’s pretty cool it can do that.
c h l o e b u i s i n
May 26, 2019 at 8:53 am
I wanted to see that satisfying slime in the thumbnail
Charles Loftin
May 26, 2019 at 9:56 am
952: that was just a really bad example. ??But there are really good asmr videos
Samantha Andrews-Jarvis
May 26, 2019 at 10:11 am
I wish they would’ve put someone on the story who has experienced ASMR
Akif Aiman
May 26, 2019 at 10:12 am
The asmr i only hear; Bob Ross, some Japanese and knife sharpening
The asmr that is not asmr for me; mukbang? Eww stop
Илья Найдов
May 26, 2019 at 11:19 am
Bob Ross invented ASMR…
Ashton Groves
May 26, 2019 at 11:22 am
I gat boners cat help it just happens
Official Jzcitzy
May 26, 2019 at 11:49 am
Dang used gibi as an example a lot
Edith Durham
May 26, 2019 at 12:28 pm
I have watched asmr for over 10 years and honestly eating asmr disgusts me the way they chew with their mouths open and how loud they slurp their food it’s like nails down a chalkboard
Each to their own everyone has different triggers that they enjoy but mukbangs are not my thing
GeneralEsper
May 26, 2019 at 12:36 pm
Whenever I found something curious or new I would feel that tingly sensation.
Sim
May 26, 2019 at 12:48 pm
My ex asked me why eating videos are considered asmr and I said because when someone is sitting there enjoying their food it makes me feel like they have no worries and so it’s calming. ? He said it makes sense ?
sara_brom
May 26, 2019 at 1:38 pm
1:28 that was Maria’s pink comb!
Sullen Morbius
May 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm
omg, that blonde has one of the most abhorrent, unpleasant voices I’ve ever heard.
sweet hippie
May 26, 2019 at 2:07 pm
The clips of Maria almost put me to sleep every time ?
Hey There!
May 26, 2019 at 3:53 pm
Instructions unclear: I fell asleep halfway through the video
Jim Jimmy
May 26, 2019 at 3:55 pm
He misdefines “autonomous.”
Skarlett87
May 26, 2019 at 4:42 pm
There’s nothing maternal for me; I’m not even into the personal attention ones. I prefer the noises, like scratching, tapping, crinkly things. I think the reason ASMR is so hard to understand, is because it’s different for everyone. Not everyone likes the personal attention ones, just like not everyone likes the ones I like.
So, in essence, they just don’t get it.
Esberk
May 26, 2019 at 4:54 pm
Calling a psychologist a neuroscientist?? Who’s working on this channel?
Emily Ye
May 27, 2019 at 5:23 am
someone needs to tell them most asmr is not eating or slime
Austin Robinson
May 27, 2019 at 5:25 am
People whispering or eating infuriate me. Makes me want to break something.
Dawn Honhera
May 27, 2019 at 5:55 am
I wish she had asked about people who DON’T find ASMR soothing. My son and I both have ADHD, and we both find ASMR videos annoying and cringey. In trying to find out what all the craze was about, I discovered that I can’t make it more than 30 seconds before I have to turn the video off. Many of the examples shown in this video actually set my teeth on edge. I like the sound of ME doing something like playing with slime, but can’t stand listening to someone else do it. Sensory sensitivity is a common ADHD symptom, so I wonder: Do those who don’t like ASMR have ADHD or some sort of sensory sensitivity, and/or do most people with these issues tend to find ASMR irritating rather than soothing?
1999
May 27, 2019 at 12:01 pm
The only thing I can think of is Misophonia. People who have it experience psychological and physiological distress as a response to certain sounds.
Or maybe you’re right that since sensory sensitivity is a common symptom of ADHD, you and your son have a negative response due to ADHD.
Or maybe you just don’t like ASMR and it’s just a preference thing.
Adam A
May 27, 2019 at 5:57 am
When I was a kid, I experienced the tingle for the first time… I thought I was the only person that felt it ever… And I always asked people if they ever felt it before. Not until the ASMR craze on youtube did I put 2 and 2 together.
Ally ASMR
May 27, 2019 at 6:48 am
I love asmr. So happy to be apart of this community
rosie armstrong
May 27, 2019 at 7:25 am
i just find asmr annoying dont @ me
Antonio AHAHAH
May 27, 2019 at 7:28 am
My gawd I love louise?
Madmerlined
May 27, 2019 at 7:54 am
The weird feeling when my university is featured by an ASMR guru
trickypixie21
May 27, 2019 at 8:23 am
I vividly remember my high school librarian’s voice triggering ASMR for me, but never knew what it was until much later. Glad I could experience that feeling again
pool bwoy
May 27, 2019 at 9:35 am
GIBI
pool bwoy
May 27, 2019 at 9:38 am
wheres the credit to the asmrtists clips u used?
Shinra Holdings
May 27, 2019 at 10:25 am
Pro tip: Use deaf people in the MRI
Logen M
May 27, 2019 at 11:04 am
I get asmr tingles when I’m being pampered. So getting your nails or hair done can also give some people the ASMR tingles.
Anna Edvardsen
May 27, 2019 at 12:53 pm
I prefer slime watching on Instagram, but it can’t be too fast and the nails have to be well groomed. On here Life with Mac is my ASMR Queen
Mothra78
May 27, 2019 at 1:05 pm
Yay gibi owo
Farah Suhaimi
May 27, 2019 at 1:28 pm
The best kind of ASMR is massage ASMR with no talking. You fall asleep feeling like you’re being massaged in a very relaxing environment. I hate it when there are whisperings or “soft-spoken” voices, it ruins the whole purpose of me wanting some alone time while sleeping and resting.
Brendon Cleaves
May 27, 2019 at 1:32 pm
All of it just makes me feel really uncomfortable nothing good about it for me at least.
Noora Black
May 27, 2019 at 1:46 pm
What if ASMR appeared so recently because people are attempting to recreate an experience of intimacy without truly involving other people?
driiifter
May 27, 2019 at 2:14 pm
it didn’t appear recently. i’ve been watching GentleWhispering since 2012 and the first ASMR videos that popped up were unintentional and also women didn’t record their faces in them, most were faceless.
Noora Black
May 27, 2019 at 4:57 pm
+driiifter I still kinda think we might be attempting to create intimacy without involving other people. ASMR kinda solves the problem.
TheLiberalMachine
May 27, 2019 at 1:57 pm
The couple eating is disgusting.
Margaret Lynch
May 27, 2019 at 2:50 pm
I appreciate they tried, but the Wired employee needs to use “like” less in her questions because it makes her seem very underprepared. Her questions are all essentially the same, and this whole video boils down to, “ASMR is a thing which appears to be both psychological AND physiological but it’s not well understood yet, TLDR needs more study.”
Also I had to google mukbang, I think Wired is erroneously conflating a lot of popular internet items into the ASMR world.
Shonta Parks
May 27, 2019 at 3:05 pm
Sometimes when my mind shuts up for once asmr makes parts of me tingle. Like my armpits and the back of my neck
Shonta Parks
May 27, 2019 at 3:06 pm
Bob Ross: asmr before it was cool
OCEsilk
May 27, 2019 at 3:07 pm
i really enjoy asmr. but mukbag/eating is so disgusting i have never experienced asmr through eating.
Gemma
May 27, 2019 at 3:27 pm
I thought this was an old video because the more recent research shows that the brains of people who experience ASMR and people who experience synesthesia are similar. It may be that ASMR is a kind of synesthesia.
Curissa Joy
May 27, 2019 at 4:43 pm
Next time have someone who experiences ASMR ask the questions.
DAMARA
May 27, 2019 at 9:55 pm
You can simply ask most of the question to the people that watch or do asmr lol
Lizzie S.
May 27, 2019 at 11:03 pm
I almost never WATCH asmr videos i only ever listen lmao so i doubt that its the precise hand movements that give me tingles lmao
Emily S.
May 27, 2019 at 11:46 pm
Idk why but I have absolutely no reactions to ASMR whatsoever it does nothing for me ?♀️?
L B
May 27, 2019 at 11:54 pm
This interview had so much potential but the questions were just…. not good. I’m bothered
S o d i u m i s n o t s a l t
May 28, 2019 at 12:18 am
She’s really bad at whispering :/
Sean Jefferson
May 28, 2019 at 1:17 am
@GibiASMR
Amanda Almeida
May 28, 2019 at 2:14 am
I used to feel the tingles in my head and spine since I was kid int school and this specific girl in my class was assigned to read something. I thought everyone had this. Some years ago I found out ASMR while people still called it whisper community. Back when Lita Ford was the queen of relaxation. With me only talking works. All the other weird noises that people do actually freak me out: tapping, mouths sounds, ear eating, slime, sand, mukbang.
Yikes. I’m 100% soft spoken anything. Even just explaining chess or tutorials
Peach
May 28, 2019 at 3:22 am
Why is her whisper so much louder than her speaking voice
T
May 28, 2019 at 3:23 am
Perhaps they should have had someone who has actually experienced it to ask the questions…
Ingenue Blue
May 28, 2019 at 3:34 am
I don’t get tingles but it helps relax me.
Momo
May 28, 2019 at 3:36 am
Maria is the queeeen. Gibis hand movements are so fast and harsh it kills me
Arthur Refslund
May 28, 2019 at 4:34 am
Everyone: I don’t know. (.457s)
Wired:
claborn79
May 28, 2019 at 5:53 am
Gibi is sonic unisom
Marissa Nielsen-Wilkinson
May 28, 2019 at 6:02 am
It’s basically the chills ? It’s not complicated. If you have had goose bumps it’s basically that only triggerable I guess ?
Michelle Voyageur
May 28, 2019 at 6:36 am
Yay Gibi! She’s my favourite person who does ASMR and the only one I listen to, to fall asleep. My kids think I’m nuts to listen to it but I love it!
M S
May 28, 2019 at 6:49 am
Get people who actually experience ASMR to talk about it, please. This is just annoying to watch.
Golgotha_Mythos69
May 28, 2019 at 7:51 am
Some of the best female voices:
Gentle Whispering –
Bluewhisper –
Prim ASMR –
ASMR Darling –
LexiPoll ASMR –
Darya Lozhkina ASMR –
MissASMR –
Gibi ASMR –
Springbok ASMR –
ARDRA -asmr-
Dana ASMR –
SophieMichelle ASMR –
Be calm with Becca ASMR –
WhispersRed ASMR –
Creative Calm ASMR –
Любовь Терлецкая ASMR –
Latte ASMR –
Cosmic Tingles ASMR –
Pigsbum53 ASMR –
Valeriya ASMR –
Darren W
May 28, 2019 at 1:56 pm
Pretty safe to say these two do not experience ASMR.
David Fick
May 28, 2019 at 2:47 pm
Electrical globe
David Fick
May 28, 2019 at 2:50 pm
OCD related?
WillTell
May 28, 2019 at 2:53 pm
I think half the ASMRs are disgusting, the other half are weird and the last half are plain creepy.
Ellie Elizabeth
May 28, 2019 at 2:57 pm
Ayyyyyyy I go to that university ????
Dane Reads
May 28, 2019 at 3:17 pm
Alas, it just gives me a headache, I had to stop watching this because the whispers were grating
Uh Oh Spaghetti-os
May 28, 2019 at 3:34 pm
The video with the tea bags/comb is legit a video I always go back to lolol its gentle whispering I think
j v
May 28, 2019 at 4:29 pm
the corn cob eating scene was repulsive
Amirah A
May 31, 2019 at 9:54 pm
Most asmr videos make me feel frustrated and sick like I want to vomit. Why is that? It’s the weirdest thing.
stickr764
May 31, 2019 at 10:15 pm
For a video about asmr this dude’s voice is not at all soothing
Andres Rodriguez
June 1, 2019 at 5:34 am
all your ASMR’s examples gave me lots of anxiety, mostly your whispering.
Fernando Alamón
June 1, 2019 at 6:05 am
I susspect the phenomenon has to do with the activity of so-called mirror neurons.
D3h
June 1, 2019 at 7:30 pm
I don’t get ASMR, it just enrages me
bradley Harper
June 1, 2019 at 7:39 pm
The eating, my god, just sounds so animalistic. ASMR is nothing but creepy
Syed Ash
June 1, 2019 at 11:20 pm
SLIME NEW YORK!!! CHLOE!!! ??
GrimToad
June 2, 2019 at 5:58 am
I can actually cause what I am guessing is an ASMR feeling at will. At least I assume, I can experience a tingling sensation down my neck and spine. Though ASMR videos don’t do it for me.
Dan Leigh
June 2, 2019 at 9:37 am
Intriguing. I have MRI scans every year. Sometime I fall asleep as the rhythmically loud magnets dampened down by ear defenders are actually quite soothing! If anything it’s a chance to lie down for 40 mins and an opportunity to practice beatboxing ? I severely need it..
Green and Blue loser
June 2, 2019 at 9:20 pm
YASSS SLIMENEWYORKK
Kojouro
June 2, 2019 at 11:24 pm
I really hate whispering videos.
Brandon Gilbrech
June 3, 2019 at 6:31 am
Her vocal fry is very distracting. Why did they film this video this way? Why not have her video match his?
imshippyupup
June 3, 2019 at 9:05 pm
I do know that writer chick’s voice is the opposite of ASMR.
The best me
June 4, 2019 at 8:12 pm
We’ve all always loved personal attention and the tingles but now we have it at our disposal.
POVHFR Videos
June 6, 2019 at 6:01 am
I hate that clip of them eating, was that a joke ?!
SuperJYLS
June 6, 2019 at 11:14 am
Why do I find all ASMR uncomfortable?
Ali
June 7, 2019 at 12:34 am
this is just weird.
J J
June 7, 2019 at 5:55 am
No idea why, but I love listening to cats eating crunchy cat food. Not even a cat person, but I just love that sound.
Andrew Noneofyorebussines
June 9, 2019 at 11:19 am
So what this say ASMR is a psychological substitute for our need of being close to another person? Like a mental masturbation?
markhor1988
June 9, 2019 at 3:02 pm
She has alot of opinions.
The Gambler
June 9, 2019 at 8:11 pm
you know what doesn’t give me ASMR ? Vocal fry.
S.A Scott
June 9, 2019 at 9:52 pm
What does it mean when you find all of it gross and annoying?
Lunatic Pipeline
June 10, 2019 at 9:13 pm
the pink comb!!!!!!!
Curtis Hewins
June 11, 2019 at 10:35 pm
I love that there is so much gibi in this video
Adam Trepanier
June 12, 2019 at 12:41 am
yeah GiBi